Por Convención FerrerPor Convención Ferrer has been shown at: 2008Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool 'Next up' (group)2009Contemporary Art Norwich EAST International 09 (group)EASTvideo, screenings at various venues across the UK (group) Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 'EASTgoesEAST' (group) Royal College of Art, London (solo) 2010Northern Art Prize (group)A publication titled 'Por Convención Ferrer: The Northwest of England, Anarchosyndicalism and Time Travel' was produced by Liverpool University Press in 2009 From the Liverpool University Press publication: “In the years leading up to the First World War a small though significant network of Anarcho-syndicalist activists in downtown Liverpool instigated an annual conference-cum-discussion group titled ‘Por Convención Ferrer’. Contributions were broad ranging in their subject matter and relied upon the involvement of fictitious characters, spectral appearances and dream-like transcendences to places located either in the past or the future”. After evidencing an archive of embroidered silk pennants commemorating each conference from 1910 through to 1918, an un-named narrator guides us through his research materials exploring the diverse content of some 27 presentations. Covering an array of matters broaching time, space and place, subjects encountered along the way range from the ‘Scotland Road Free School’, to ‘the zonal mapping of ‘Sleeping sickness’ in the Belgian Congo’, Thomas De Quincey’s residing at Everton, and a Critical Mass bike ride through Manchester City Centre. 
 
 
 
 
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